Well today is Ascension Day. I wouldn’t have known it except for the fact my part time job takes me into Lancaster county and I’ve been seeing signs in businesses saying that they will be closed on Ascension Day. I visited a farm to buy some flowers and they were closed and the streets were busy with Mennonites riding in buggys dressed in their Sunday best so I put two and two together. So what is it? Ascension Day is the 40th day of Easter. It occurs 39 days after Easter Sunday. It is a Christian holiday that commemorates Jesus Christ’s ascension into heaven.

We read of the event in the book of Acts 1:9-11 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

Ascension Day is a reminder that Jesus left us with work to do in His absence, and He will definitely come back to see what we have accomplished in His name, and also take us to be with Himself.

The “these things” referred to were outlined in the prior verse Acts 1:8 which says “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.”

 John 14:3  says “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.”

So what are we doing while Jesus is away? Are we living for Him? Are we learning His Holy Word? Are we raising our families to know and follow Him? Are we doing the work He commanded us to do? Are we being His witnesses?

A lot of us get wrapped up in the hope that the people we elect will clean up our country and restore it to the greatness it once had. We look for a “savior” that will ride in on his white horse and restore all things. But beloved, the Bible says that things will get worse not better in the end times, and I believe if not already in, we are fast approaching the start of the End Times.

So wake up my brothers and sisters! Jesus is coming again! What will we present to Him when it is our turn to stand before Him face to face? Will there be souls who were saved through our witness, through our prayers, and through our sacrificial giving to ministries that preached the Gospel? I hope the answer is yes, and if you are lacking in these areas there is still time before the trumpet is sounded and time will be no more.

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May 2nd, is my second birthday. Another birthday you say? Yep, another birthday! So how does a person get a second birthday? It is something very important, and Jesus spoke about it to a man named Nicodemus. He said to him, “Except a man be born again he will not see the Kingdom of God” (John 3:3). Nicodemus was an aged man who was a religious man to boot, but he knew nothing about being born again! There is a saying “Born once, die twice. Born twice, die once”. What does that mean? It means that if you are only born once there will come a day when you die and then at the end of time you will die again! The Bible says in Revelation 20:14-15, “And death and Hell were cast into the Lake of Fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.” This explains the second death.

But the good news is that the second death can be avoided! Remember? “Born twice, die once!” It sounds like being born twice and having your name written in the Book of Life is imperative! This is why Jesus came, to make it possible for everyone who believes in Him to have their names written into the Book of Life and therefore have eternal life! No second death! For you see, the second birthday is a “Spiritual Birth” and it comes through believing the Gospel which Jesus told His disciples to go out and preach about so the world could be saved. The definition of the Gospel is that Jesus came and lived a sinless life, He was crucified and died to pay the penalty for our sins, He was buried and was raised from the dead on the third day.

So how do you make all of this personal? Let me help you. You must consider and believe these things by faith:

1. That God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life. We see this in John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish (in the second death) but have everlasting life.”
2. That you are separated from God by your sins. We see this in Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned and have come short of the glory of God.” Furthermore those sins bring death. We see this in Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death.”
3. That Jesus died on the Cross for your sins. We see this in Romans 5:8 “But God showed His love to us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.”
4. Then receive Jesus by faith, trusting Him to forgive your sins and give you eternal life and be Born Again and become His child having your name written in the Book of Life! The Bible says, “But as many as received Him to them gave He power to become the sons of God even to those who believe on His name.” (John 1:12)

To be born again and have your name written into the Lamb’s Book of Life you could pray a prayer like this:

Lord Jesus, I need you. I believe you died on the cross for my sins and arose from the dead. I turn from my sins and by faith receive you now as my personal Savior. Come into my life and make me your child and help me live my new life for you. In Your Name I pray, Amen.

If you sincerely and with a repentant heart prayed that prayer for the very first time you were just Born Again! You have your second birthday! Congratulations! No second death for you. Let me know of your decision as I would love to help you start out your new spiritual life.

If you already have had your second birthday you know what this message is all about. Share this blog with a friend and let’s spread the good news of Jesus all around the world.

Amen?

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Today I had breakfast with around 25 or so of my classmates from the Northern Lebanon High School Class of 1969. It was a great time of renewing friendships and fellowshipping around the tables with those we haven’t seen for decades in some cases. We were a fairly large class for our district at around 200 students. We were broken down into Academic, Business, Agricultural and Industrial Arts studies. Some of us (like me) married our high school sweethearts. We all had great dreams and aspirations. As typical, a great many went on to further schooling earning degrees of one sort or another and many went right into the work-a-day world and some even started businesses of their own.

Life happened. Many of us married and started families with sons and daughters and grandchildren to ultimately follow. We lived in the greatest nation on earth and the opportunities for success were unlimited. We put in our days and nights of work at raising the next generation and making a living to feed the mouths around the table and the decades piled up and time flew by. Our waistlines grew, our hair turned gray and for some like me fell out all-together! But God was good as usual and we enjoyed the blessings of freedom and opportunity in America unlike in any other country on the face of the globe.

Our class is much smaller now, in fact the toll of life starting reducing our numbers within a month of graduation as a car crash took one of our young men even before his dreams could be realized. That’s the way life is. Didn’t our Lord Jesus’ brother James say “For ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.”? (James 4:14)

Yes, many of our classmates are gone already having stepped from this world into eternity. How much then should we treasure the time we have together and the friendships which we can still foster in order to support and encourage each other as the golden years arrive? When we used to meet up with one another the question would often be asked, “Where are you working?” But now the question typically is, “Are you still working?” Ha ha! Yes, for those of us Class of 69’ers born in 1950-51 this year will see most of us finally reach that good old age of 65 when Americans have been programmed to tear up their time cards and spend time with the grandkids. Not a bad idea!

I would be remiss if I didn’t close with an encouragement to make your “faith” provisions now, so that the class of 1969 could spend eternity together rejoicing around the throne of heaven. For Jesus Himself said, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). Trust Him today and let’s be “Forever Friends”. See you next time Lord willing.

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Compliments of my good friend Dale Flynn retired Word of Life Missionary.

If you should visit Washington, D.C., you’re bound to see the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument, and the Capitol Building. But there’s this one side trip to Northern Virginia that’s probably the most humbling stop you’ll make. It’s Arlington National Cemetery where this endless sea of white crosses reminds an American paid the high price of freedom. That price is beautifully dramatized every hour at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier – with the Changing of the Guard.

Tomb Guard sentinels are from the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, traditionally known as “The Old Guard.” These sentinels are considered to be the best of the elite regiment. In this elaborate but reverent ceremony, the Relief Commander and the relieving sentinel meet the retiring sentinel guard. The Relief Commander orders the relieved sentinel to “Pass on your orders.” The sentinel who is being relieved says, “Post and orders remain as directed.” To which the newly posted sentinel replies, “Orders acknowledged.”

Two thousand years ago, on a hill overlooking Jerusalem, after His resurrection, Jesus rallied His disciples, gave them their marching orders. His final orders to these eleven men were to “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15). John further reminds us “… as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you” (John 20:21).

The orders to Jesus’ first soldiers were clear. They were to pour their lives into getting the Good News about Him to as many people as possible. And the orders remain unchanged… even if the world we live in is very changed.

Even though we are surrounded by battles to fight: Pornography, abortion, family disintegration, immorality in the media, crises of character in the lives of our religious leaders, our political leaders, and our culture that has forgotten God… and that’s just the beginning of the list, some believers are so self-absorbed they’re just sleeping through the whole thing. Other believers just shake their heads in anger and disgust over the mess and lament the problems, “It doesn’t make any difference.”
But this is a time for action, especially with the world looking more and more like the world Jesus said He would return to. It feels as if both armies—the armies of the light and the armies of darkness—are fully mobilized for what may be some of the last climactic battles for people’s lives. So, which battles shall we fight? And what weapons shall we use? Political action? Attacks on the evils of our culture?

The Master’s orders remain unchanged. “Go and preach the Gospel.“ How did the first century believers do battle against the evils of their day? Little baby girls left in jars on street corners to die, people torn apart by animals for Sunday afternoon entertainment, Christians burned as torches in Nero’s gardens. You don’t find much of a trace of the original Christians mounting a campaign against the sins of their culture.

What you do find is the original believers presenting Jesus Christ wherever they could. And city after city was rocked by the impact of believers who knew their orders and understood that as the Bible says, the Gospel of Christ “… is the power of God unto salvation” (Romans 1:16). The cultures are changed when individuals are changed by Jesus from the inside out! Politics is not the answer… the Gospel is!

Now, we need to be salt and light wherever God puts us, and stand against what breaks His heart. But we must never let our primary resources go to that which will, at best, bring about only temporary change—and leave people living better but still headed for a hopeless, Christless eternity.

Our moral outrage needs to be turned into more outreach!
Only new creations will change a dying culture!

So, as the orders have passed from Jesus to His first eleven soldiers, and now down through the centuries to us, Our Master’s Orders Remain Unchanged!

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One of my favorite places is reclining with a good fiction book on my yard swing, especially at the end of the day. I must confess, I’ve been a bit out of sorts lately with my brother Pooch contracting cancer (he starts aggressive treatment next Monday) then adjusting to 6 hours of driving a day over hill and dale and through all kinds of traffic. Sometimes I don’t know whether I’m coming or going! Take this week so far for an example. The student I transport has two different schedules, a later one for Monday and Tuesday and an early one for Wednesday through Friday (a one hour difference). On Monday afternoon I left one hour too early and ended up parking at the Ephrata Cloisters to take a one hour nap! Then this afternoon I left one hour too late and realized it about 5 minutes into my ride and had to call the parent and he kindly agreed to go pick up his daughter because of my absentmindedness! I then put the schedule in BOLD characters on my refrigerator door and yes, Lord willing I will reach my 65th birthday this year! I bought my first Senior Fishing License!

Back to my swing…. so then I took some R&R while reading a Louis La’Amour western to kick my brain into neutral or la la land (a habit I got from my big brother Pooch… the western books that is). I eventually dozed off (under a nice fleese blanket of course) and when I awoke I noticed all the creatures that had come alive all around me! I have a small pond tucked into the corner of our house just outside our living room window, complimented by a couple of bird feeders, and the assortment of birds swooping down to eat and/or take a bath was spell binding. The Robins were also hopping through the green spring grass around me busy worm hunting and a Mourning Dove was just above my head in my Maple tree’s branches just cooing away! I retrieved my iphone from under the blanket and began snapping pictures. The good ones are attached. Check out the Dove in the very corner of the house in almost an angel pose!

Years ago, I mean a LOT of years ago, I was sitting beside my wife’s brother-in-law on his patio one evening after a picnic. He was an unbeliever at the time. Meaning he had not yet come to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. His wife was a believer and so he had heard the Gospel, that Christ died for his sins, was crucified and buried, and then rose from the dead on the third day to be his Savior from sin. But John just couldn’t believe all that or make it personal for himself. We sat there looking up into the glorious evening sky. We weren’t even talking necessarily about the things of the Lord when John just blurted out as he waved his hand across the sky and said, “What about all of this? Where did it come from?” From somewhere deep inside of me came the words, “Well John, the Bible says The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shows forth His handiwork!” That was it, nothing more was said. Just a shrug of the shoulders and the seed was planted into his heart. He would later tell me that was one of the turning points or links in the chain that brought him to salvation.

We have a GREAT God! Amen? To think that the ONE who created the universe and a gazillion galaxies around us cared enough to become a man in human skin, live without sin, and then provide a way for us to know Him is just mind boggling! The Apostle Paul wrote about God’s creation and how that it preaches to the unbeliever. Check this out from Romans 1:20  For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God. 

Then Jesus the Creator walked the earth and John the Baptist said of Him, “Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the whole world!” Do you know Him? I mean really know Him. Not just following a set of rules or know a crede or two or have Sunday School attendance pins hanging to your shins! It is frightening to know there will come a day when Jesus will look at the crowds before him and say to many, “Depart from me, I never knew you!”

Will you join the creation in praising the Lord? I’ve been getting up very early lately and while it’s still dark, when I go out my front door, I hear the halelujah chorus of all of creation already praising Him! Have you heard it? Will you wake up and take your first step of real faith today and let Jesus the Savior and Creator come into your heart and life and complete His creation in you? “But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to those that believe on His name.” John 1:12

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Back in 1972 my wife JoJo and I bought a little 2 bedroom mobile home and it wasn’t long until two men from a nearby Bible church stopped at our home and invited us to attend their services. It took two years but we eventually did decide to visit as the Lord put it in our hearts to begin to provide our two young sons Eric and Daniel, with some religious training. Those events were links in the providential chain which eventually brought us to faith in Jesus Christ. Our third son Jason who now pastors Life Church in Lancaster PA (see http://www.lifechurchlancaster.org) used our story to encourage his congregation to reach out, ahead of their recent Easter service, with invitations of their own.

You never know what God will do when you step into His house! He may start a chain reaction which will have eternal results! Marriages will be saved, lives will be saved and transformed for God’s glory and for their own benefit! Succeeding generations will be blessed with the Gospel and for all eternity.

When men wanted to start our country and a civil society to where did they turn? To the Book! When people get married what does the pastor do? He reads from The Book! When people testify in court on what do they put their hand? The Book! When presidents are sworn in on what book do they put their hand? The Book! When people are in trouble with no where to turn where do they go? To The Book! When someone dies what is used to encourage the family? The Book! When someome need answers for life and the origin of life to where do they turn? To The Book! When a person is in prison with no hope of remediation what brings new life and new beginnings? The Book!

What is it about this Book? Why is it so critical to the human race? Why is it inserted in all of the important transactions and situations of life? Why? Because it is the Bible, God’s Holy Word, that is why! The Bible is trustworthy. The Bible has survived the attacks and onslaught of it’s governmental and spiritual enemies down through the ages. Men have tried to burn it out of existence. They have tried to legislate it out of circulation. They have made laws against it. They killed it’s writers and those who would have the audacity to preach it’s Words to the nations. But it lives and lives and lives and goes on and on and on because GOD is the Author and the One who protects His Word. It is HIS Word and therefore sacred and eternal.

Men, women, boys and girls would do well to read it daily, to study it, to meditate on it and to memorize it for it will change your life and prepare you for whatever lies ahead and ultimately for eternity!

Psalm 1 (KJV)

1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

² But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

³ And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

⁴ The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

⁵ Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

⁶ For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

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Hello Friends, The other day I wrote a blog entitled Once Upon A Time and the lessons I shared have come home to roost in my own life. The summary portion of that blog said:

“Can we just admit there is a MUCH higher Sovereign Power to Whom we are all tied? [when things happen] We make a great mistake when we run the other direction away from Him. RUN TO HIM for the other direction is a much much darker place! You might not understand it all, but just RUN TO HIM and your “Once Upon A Time” story will give “God the Glory” and that is the ending for which we were made.”

Well, in recent days our family received the news that my oldest brother Warren (better known to us as “Pooch”) was discovered to have Melanoma Cancer. Pooch has had a tremendous impact on our family. He led me to the lord back in 1975. He led our family when our dad left us and he has been the Rock of Gibraltar in our family in a million ways. The lives he has touched and the reverberations of his life and testimony are huge for the Kingdom of God.

It is very early in his diagnosis and the plan for treatment is just now being created. Our family would greatly appreciate your prayers for Pooch and his dear wife Thelma plus for their two sons, their daughter-in-law and three grandchildren. The waters will be deep and so let us all RUN TO THE LORD JESUS with our prayers on their behalf for healing and for strength and wisdom for those who will minister to him in the coming critical days.

I close with Thelma’s comment in her initial message to us all:

“We are resting in the arms of Jesus. Your prayers are appreciated.”

 

A story from my good friend Dale Flynn.

In Nashville, Tennessee, during the first week of January, 1996, more than 4,000 baseball coaches descended upon the Opryland Hotel for the 52nd annual ABCA convention.

While I waited in line to register with the hotel staff, I heard other more veteran coaches rumbling about the lineup of speakers scheduled to present during the weekend. One name, in particular, kept resurfacing, always with the same sentiment — “John Scolinos is here? Oh man, worth every penny of my airfare.”

Who is John Scolinos, I wondered. No matter, I was just happy to be there.

In 1996, Coach Scolinos was 78 years old and five years retired from a college coaching career that began in 1948. He shuffled to the stage to an impressive standing ovation, wearing dark polyester pants, a light blue shirt, and a string around his neck from which home plate hung — a full-sized, stark-white home plate.

Seriously, I wondered, who in thunder is this guy?

After speaking for twenty-five minutes, not once mentioning the prop hanging around his neck, Coach Scolinos appeared to notice the snickering among some of the coaches. Even those who knew Coach Scolinos had to wonder exactly where he was going with this, or if he had simply forgotten about home plate since he’d gotten on stage.

Then, finally …

“You’re probably all wondering why I’m wearing home plate around my neck. Or maybe you think I escaped from Camarillo State Hospital,” he said, his voice growing irascible. I laughed along with the others, acknowledging the possibility. “No,” he continued, “I may be old, but I’m not crazy. The reason I stand before you today is to share with you baseball people what I’ve learned in my life, what I’ve learned about home plate in my 78 years.”

Several hands went up when Scolinos asked how many Little League coaches were in the room. “Do you know how wide home plate is in Little League?” After a pause, someone offered, “Seventeen inches,” more question than answer.

“That’s right,” he said. “How about in Babe Ruth? Any Babe Ruth coaches in the house?”

Another long pause.

“Seventeen inches?” came a guess from another reluctant coach.

“That’s right,” said Scolinos. “Now, how many high school coaches do we have in the room?” Hundreds of hands shot up, as the pattern began to appear. “How wide is home plate in high school baseball?”

“Seventeen inches,” they said, sounding more confident.

“You’re right!” Scolinos barked. “And you college coaches, how wide is home plate in college?”

“Seventeen inches!” we said, in unison.

“Any Minor League coaches here? How wide is home plate in pro ball?”

“Seventeen inches!”

“RIGHT! And in the Major Leagues, how wide home plate is in the Major Leagues?”

“Seventeen inches!”

“SEV-EN-TEEN INCHES!” he confirmed, his voice bellowing off the walls. “And what do they do with a Big League pitcher who can’t throw the ball over seventeen inches?” Pause. “They send him to Pocatello!” he hollered, drawing raucous laughter.

“What they don’t do is this: they don’t say, ‘Ah, that’s okay, Jimmy. You can’t hit a seventeen-inch target? We’ll make it eighteen inches, or nineteen inches. We’ll make it twenty inches so you have a better chance of hitting it. If you can’t hit that, let us know so we can make it wider still, say twenty-five inches.’”

Pause…

“Coaches …”

Pause…

“What do we do when our best player shows up late to practice? When our team rules forbid facial hair and a guy shows up unshaven? What if he gets caught drinking? Do we hold him accountable? Or do we change the rules to fit him, do we widen home plate?

The chuckles gradually faded as four thousand coaches grew quiet, the fog lifting as the old coach’s message began to unfold. He turned the plate toward himself and, using a Sharpie, began to draw something. When he turned it toward the crowd, point up, a house was revealed, complete with a freshly drawn door and two windows. “This is the problem in our homes today. With our marriages, with the way we parent our kids. With our discipline. We don’t teach accountability to our kids, and there is no consequence for failing to meet standards. We widen the plate!”

Pause. Then, to the point at the top of the house he added a small American flag.

“This is the problem in our schools today. The quality of our education is going downhill fast and teachers have been stripped of the tools they need to be successful, and to educate and discipline our young people. We are allowing others to widen home plate! Where is that getting us?”

Silence. He replaced the flag with a Cross.

“And this is the problem in the Church, where powerful people in positions of authority have taken advantage of young children, only to have such an atrocity swept under the rug for years. Our church leaders are widening home plate!”

I was amazed. At a baseball convention where I expected to learn something about curveballs and bunting and how to run better practices, I had learned something far more valuable. From an old man with home plate strung around his neck, I had learned something about life, about myself, about my own weaknesses and about my responsibilities as a leader. I had to hold myself and others accountable to that which I knew to be right, lest our families, our faith, and our society continue down an undesirable path.

“If I am lucky,” Coach Scolinos concluded, “you will remember one thing from this old coach today. It is this: if we fail to hold ourselves to a higher standard, a standard of what we know to be right; if we fail to hold our spouses and our children to the same standards, if we are unwilling or unable to provide a consequence when they do not meet the standard; and if our schools and churches and our government fail to hold themselves accountable to those they serve, there is but one thing to look forward to …” With that, he held home plate in front of his chest, turned it around, and revealed its dark black backside.  “… dark days ahead.”

Coach Scolinos died in 2009 at the age of 91, but not before touching the lives of hundreds of players and coaches, including mine. Meeting him at my first ABCA convention kept me returning year after year, looking for similar wisdom and inspiration from other coaches. He is the best clinic speaker the ABCA has ever known because he was so much more than a baseball coach.

His message was clear: “Coaches, keep your players — no matter how good they are — your own children, and most of all, keep yourself at seventeen inches.

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It was a great Easter Sunday today in the Wolfe household! We all gathered in our respective churches. Our one son, a pastor, along with his family led his growing flock in worshipping our Risen Lord. The rest of us gathered at my church which was packed to overflowing with worshippers followed by a family celebration at our home with our 3 son’s families including our eight grandchildren. There is something about Easter which brings people to church and families together. I was perusing Facebook and saw picture after picture of families celebrating together, posts from friends wishing everyone a happy or blessed Easter or Resurrection Sunday. It is a good thing!

Why is it such a big deal? What is all the hullabaloo about? I tell you, it’s about life! It’s about new resurrected lives! My pastor said it very straight forward today, “No one gets out of this world alive.” We are all on a journey to eternity, some sooner, some later but inevitably that day will come and it will be very important to know whether we are still living in our sins or have been saved from our sins. It’s that simple. The saved ones aren’t perfect, that’s a given. But they have a source of new life that is out of this world.

The Apostle Paul said it well, “If any man be in Christ he is a new creation. Old things are passed away, behold all things become new.” (2 Cor 5:17) We have a young preacher boy at our church named Chris. He’s only 16 but God has saved him and given him a burden to preach. He will preach at our church this coming Sunday before competing in a youth talent competion in a couple of weeks. Chris has experienced the New Birth spoken of by Jesus in John chapter three. Today he posted the below message on facebook. I thought I’d share his message just as he posted it:

Hello everyone and happy easter! In this time of year we go and meet family. And we usually spend time with each other. And we play games eat and have a good time. But a lot of people don’t seem to realize what easter is all about. Easter is about Jesus Christ resurrecting from the dead. Jesus Christ died on the cross and 3 days later he conquered death after dying and then he ascended up into heaven to open the gates for everyone. Sinners like me and sinners like you so that we can have eternal life with Jesus. Jesus did not have to die on the cross for us “No no no no” he wanted to die on the cross for us to give us eternal life. Don’t you see this is a free gift that Jesus gave us. I’m so thankful that he died for me because now I can see him forever in heaven. I’m so thankful that he forgives me of my sins that I confess to him. I’m so thankful that my father in heaven does not break his promises he says in John 3:16 “For god so loved the world that he gave his only son that whoever believes in him will have eternal life.” If you believe that Jesus Christ our lord and savior died on the cross for your sins and he rose again 3 days later I promise you he will save you. I’m so thankful that he has saved me.

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